Wireless router: 8 port, gig. Easy turning on and off wireless.

[Santilli]

Anyone have an industrial strength router/wireless that is Gigabyte speed, that they like, and have had good luck with?

 

[Mercutio]

I still have a Catalyst 5005 sitting around, but that's probably not what you're talking about.

 

[ddrueding]

If you want to go hardcore, get a pair of these and some of these, add the rest of the hardware and software of your choice (Smoothwall, for example with some basic modifications), and that is about as hardcore/fast as a home-user could possibly want.

 

[CougTek]

Anyone have an industrial strength router/wireless that is Gigabyte speed, that they like, and have had good luck with?

It would be easier to find one with gigabit ports.

 

[LunarMist]

Certainly not at prices Greg would accept.

 

[sdbardwick]

This Buffalo is decent, especially after the price drop. DD-WRT out of the box and the gigabit ports actually do gigabit transfers. I paid $90 or so at the time, and it has been well behaved.

 

[time]

Greg, I'm not aware of a Wireless router with more than 4 LAN ports. The norm is to provide this as separate devices, i.e. a WAP router and an 8 (or more) port gigabit switch.

Why do you need to be able to easily turn wireless on and off?

 

[Santilli]

I was looking for a compact, clean solution to my setup. I pulled the
54Gl when the guy wouldn't pay the bill.

The new modem they gave me requires a power down and restart everytime I add a device. On top of that, the units have to be powered up in a certain order to get everything working:
Modem, Wireless, switch, or the switch seems to grab control, stopping the wireless router from working.

I was kind of hoping for a one box, plug and play solution.

David: Last time I checked, I'm out of PCI slots on the server, and, The Beast doesn't have any slots open, either.

I'd rather have a device that is on all the time, consuming little power, then a computer that sucks up a LOT of juice, and, is often turned off.

Anyone using a 4G phone connection as the gateway, and hooking that up to a wireless router for web access?

Just heard Tmobile is now ATTmobile, bought by ATT.
Yuck. Sprint here I come...

Airwire looks like something I might use...

http://www.ubnt.com/airwire

 

[Santilli]

http://store.netgate.com/Indoor-Build-Your-Own-Kits-C142.aspx

???
Looks like when you get done, you have about 400 dollars into a wireless setup/router.

Anyone tried this, done it?

 

[Santilli]

Net seemed unusually snappy today. Just checked speed, and, I'm getting bursts to 70mbps,
or slightly higher, then settles down to a solid 22-23mbps.

Using the WRT54gl I was getting maybe 12 mbps.

 

[ddrueding]

I use the bigger version of AirWire, PowerBridgeM...might not want to stand too close for too long